By Tom Breihan on May 11, 2009 at 6:10 p.m. EDT

-- Get your import bin money up: Sonic Youth will release a Japan-only box set version of their new album The Eternal. The Eternal - Sonik Tooth Box will include the new album with two bonus tracks (taken from their Record Store Day split 7"s) and Japanese translations of the lyrics, a live CD taped at Battery Park, the Sonic Death'09 zine, T-shirts by Toga Nejico, and a sticker. And judging from photographic evidence, a stick-figure drawing of a skull with a mohawk will be somehow involved, always a good sign. According to a MySpace blog post, the box will be out June 3 on Hostess, the band's new Japanese label.

-- Diplo's Mad Decent label is about more than music; it's also about wacky sound effects. Mad Decent's new iPhone app is up now on the iTunes store, it's free, and it seems to consist entirely of sound effects: airhorn, elephant, dinosaur. In this video, a Diplo gives us a guided tour of the app without putting down his joint. Random onlooker guy: "Would you ever use that in a set?" Diplo: "Yeah, it's fucking reggae, dude."